Asobo, known today as the Microsoft Flight Simulator developer, created groundbreaking technology for large scale maps that was intended to be used in a high quality rally raid title. It was never released and ended up as FUEL, a post-apocalyptic open-world racing game. What happened?
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According to a post on RAS GT Interactive’s historic Trans-Am sim has been delayed, for a bit longer this time. It is now due later this year, but it sounds like this could drag into 2000.
Here’s the reason given:
Yeah we are still a go, but things are taking longer than expected. Currently we’re targeting a release date towards the very end of ’99. It really isn’t uncommon for high-end simulations to take 2+ years in development, we were probably just a bit too ambitious in our initial release date.
Originally announced to be released on PC and limited consoles. Never released.